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Tomorrow the History Department meets to open consideration of the Harvard Policy Committee's History audit. Two of the HPC's major suggestions--strengthening sophomore tutorial and de-emphasizing general examinations--could and should be adopted as soon as possible...
...proposal a year ago, but that proposal, later rejected by the new HPC which came into office in the Spring, was a poor one. It called for an optional pass-fail fifth course, rather than a pass-fail fourth course. Such a proposal would not be very different from auditing, where a student attends an extra course, does as much of the work as he wants to, and doesn't have to worry about a grade. It would have no effect on the large number of students who have never expressed a desire to audit a course. And many students...
...department's tutorial program should integrate the four categories, the audit continued, but at present both sophomore and junior tutorial are too specialized and fail to put problems in perspective...
...suggested that sophomore tutorial, now non-credit, become a full course for credit, required for all concentrators, that would cover linguistic history followed by current theory and techniques. The audit also recommended that junior tutorial be changed from a half-course to a full course, individually given. It added a suggestion for a general set of readings to cover all tutorials...
Robert Underhill, instructor in Linguistics and chairman of the department's board of tutors, said yesterday that members of the department found the HPC's recommendations for sophomore tutorial "sound," but might not agree with the audit's proposals for junior tutorial...